Expanding Medicare would also be a benefit to Medicare, it will financially stabilize what is now the high-risk pool of the insurance industry. A substantial majority of Medicare enrollees – roughly 87% have at least one chronic condition, and nearly half have three or more.
~Aninnervoice
You'd be correct only if EVERYONE were on Medicare. Are you suggesting we force everyone on a single system? That is EXACTLY what the "ideologues who would call it socialism" are referring to.

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